“Highland Mary”

Description

"Ye banks, and braes, and streams around The castle o' Montgomery, Green be your woods... For there I took the last fareweel O' my sweet Highland Mary." The singer recalls their love and their parting and laments her death

Notes

The Brigid Tunney song on IRTunneyFamily01 is mis-titled. On the recording itself Brigid Tunney identifies the song as "Highland Mary." - BS

Historical references

  • 1786 - Romance between Robert Burns and Mary Campbell. They met in spring and pledged faith at their parting in May; Campbell died that autumn, probably of typhus

Cross references

Broadsides

  • NLScotland, L.C.1270(001), "Highland Mary," unknown, c. 1845; also RB.m.143(029), "Highland Mary," unknown, c. 1890

Recordings

  • Brigid Tunney, "Burns and His Highland Mary" (on IRTunneyFamily01)

References

  1. Creighton/Senior, p. 161-162, "Highland Mary" (1 texts, 1 tune, including 3 stanzas not part of the Burns poem)
  2. DT, HIGHMARY
  3. Roud #1095
  4. BI, CrSe161

About

Author: Words: Robert Burns
Earliest date: 1792 (original publication)
Found in: Canada(Mar) Ireland